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perplex

[per-pleks] / pərˈplɛks /


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Now, facing irrelevance and the perplexing 1960s, she falters.

From The Wall Street Journal

The study also found a perplexing rise in unexplained illnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal

There are anomalies in the labor market, which are leaving people like your son feeling perplexed.

From MarketWatch

In 120 paintings, drawings, photographs and especially sculptures, this Therrien exhibition offers objects hovering somewhere between immediately recognizable and perplexingly alien, wryly funny and spiritually profound.

From Los Angeles Times

Skeptics who had been perplexed by Mr. Gehry’s squirming metallic shapes suddenly found them perfectly comprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal